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Smelting Studies for Recovery of Iron from Red Mud

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10th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing

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Red mud can be regarded as a by-product of aluminium extraction process since it contains a significant amount of iron and some valuable elements. Therefore, the treatment of red mud has been a hot topic for some decades. The authors have recently started a laboratory-scale project dealing with stepwise recovery of valuable elements from red mud of Seydisehir Aluminum Plant, Turkey. The first step is related to recovery of iron and pyrometallurgical methods (smelting and solid-state reduction) will be performed. Nonferrous metals will then be selectively leached in the second step. In the extent of the present work, a literature review relevant to the smelting studies for recovery of iron from red mud was presented.

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The authors would like to thank The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) for the financial support given under Project No: 117M185.

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  1. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Atilim University, 06830, Ankara, Turkey

    Ender Keskinkilic

  2. Agri Ibrahim Cecen University, Ataturk Mah, 04500, Patnos, Agri, Turkey

    Saeid Pournaderi

  3. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Eng, Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey

    Ahmet Geveci & Yavuz A. Topkaya

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  1. Central South University, Changsha, China

    Tao Jiang

  2. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA

    Jiann-Yang Hwang

  3. RHI Magnesita, Leoben, Austria

    Dean Gregurek

  4. Central South University, Changsha, China

    Zhiwei Peng

  5. Montana Tech, Butte, MT, USA

    Jerome P. Downey

  6. The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Baojun Zhao

  7. Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

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  8. Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

    Ender Keskinkilic

  9. University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile

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Keskinkilic, E., Pournaderi, S., Geveci, A., Topkaya, Y.A. (2019). Smelting Studies for Recovery of Iron from Red Mud. In: Jiang, T., et al. 10th International Symposium on High-Temperature Metallurgical Processing. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05955-2_46

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